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Totò

Born · February 14, 1898

Died · April 15, 1967 (69 years old)

Known For: Acting

Place of Birth: Naples, Campania, Italy

Bio

Totò was born Antonio Clemente in a poor district of Naples, the illegitimate son of Anna Clemente from Sicily and Marquis Giuseppe De Curtis from Naples. Nicknamed “il principe della risata’ (the prince of laughter), he was an Italian comedian, film and theatre actor, writer, singer and songwriter, and widely considered one of the greatest Italian artists of the 20th century. While he first gained his popularity as a comic actor, his dramatic roles, poetry, and songs are all of cultural import; his style and a number of his recurring jokes and gestures have become universally known memes in Italy. As a comic actor, Totò is classified as an heir of the Commedia dell'Arte tradition, and has been compared to such figures as Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin. At the age of 15, he was already acting as a comedian in small theatres, under the pseudonym "Clerment". His early repertoire mostly consisted in imitations of Gustavo De Marco's characters. He served in the army during World War I and then went back to acting to develop the trademarks of his style. In 1937, he appeared in his first movie "Fermo con le mani", and later starred in 96 more films, many of which are still frequently broadcast on Italian television. In his vast cinematographic career, Totò had the opportunity to act side by side with virtually all major Italian actors of the time. Totò's unmistakable figure, with his peculiarly irregular face (due to an accident in his teen years), and his unique trademark ability to disarticulate his body like a marionette, soon became very popular and his comic gags became part of the Italian culture. Totò died at the age of 69 in Rome after a series of heart attacks. Due to overwhelming popularity there were three funeral services: the first in Rome, and the second and third in Naples. Totò's birth home has been recently opened to the public as a museum.

Known for

Totò e il Principe De Curtis. L'uomo oltre la maschera

Se stesso

0.0

2023

We Are Cinema

Self (archive footage)

9.5

2021

Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita

Self (archive footage)

7.3

2021

Siamo tutti Alberto Sordi?

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

6.8

2020

Naples '44

Self (archive footage)

5.7

2016

How We Got the Italian Movie Business Into Trouble: The True Story of Franco and Ciccio

Self (archive footage)

6.7

2004

Antologia di Totò

Totò (se stesso)

0.0

1978

Un sorriso, uno schiaffo, un bacio in bocca

(archive footage)

4.8

1975

Caprice Italian Style

Anziano Signore / Iago

6.2

1968

What Are the Clouds?

Iago

8.5

1968

Totò Story

6.5

1968

1964

Totò contro il pirata nero

Josè

6.3

1964

The Commandant

Col. Antonio Cavalli

6.5

1963

Gli onorevoli

Antonio La Trippa

6.8

1963

Toto and Cleopatra

Marc'Antonio / Totonno

6.7

1963

Totò Sexy

Nini Cantachiaro

5.2

1963

Le motorizzate

Urbano Cacace (segment "Il Vigile Ignoto")

6.0

1963

The Monk of Monza

Pasquale Cicciacalda / Don Manuel

7.1

1963

Totò vs the Four

commissario Antonio Saracino

6.7

1963

The Shortest Day

frate bersagliere

6.2

1963

Two Colonels

Colonnello Di Maggio

7.5

1963

Toto at Night

Nini

5.8

1962

Totò e Peppino divisi a Berlino

Antonio La Puzza / Amministratore di Canarinis

6.6

1962

Lo smemorato di Collegno

lo smemorato

6.7

1962

Totò diabolicus

Galeazzo / Carlo / Scipione / Antonio / Laudomia / Pasquale

7.1

1962

Totò contro Maciste

Totokamen

6.5

1962

The Two Marshals

Antonio Capurro

7.1

1961

Totòtruffa '62

Antonio LoRuffo

7.7

1961

Sua Eccellenza si fermò a mangiare

Dott. Biagio Tanzarella

6.6

1961

Totò, Peppino and... the Sweet Life

Antonio Barbacane

6.8

1961

He Who Hesitates Is Lost

Antonio Guardalavecchia

6.9

1960

The Passionate Thief

Umberto 'Infortunio' Pennazzuto

6.9

1960

Letto a tre piazze

Antonio Di Cosimo

7.0

1960

Toto, Fabrizi and the Young People Today

Cavalier Antonio Cocozza

7.2

1960

Signori si nasce

Ottone Degli Ulivi, detto Zazà

7.1

1960

Noi duri

L'Algerino

6.5

1960

La cambiale

Cesare Posalaquaglia

6.6

1959

You're on Your Own

Il nonno illuminato

7.1

1959

The Thieves

Commissario Di Savio

5.4

1959

The Overtaxed

Torquato Pezzella

7.1

1959

Toto in Madrid

Totò Scorceletti

6.4

1959

Totò nella Luna

Pasquale Belafronte

5.6

1958

Toto in Paris

Marchese Gastone de Chemantel / Chateau-Boiron / il vagabondo Totò

6.2

1958

The Law Is the Law

Giuseppe La Paglia

7.2

1958

Legs of Gold

Barone Luigi Fontana

5.0

1958

Totò, Peppino e le fanatiche

Antonio Vignarello

6.4

1958

Big Deal on Madonna Street

Dante Cruciani

8.1

1958

Toto and Marcellino

Il Professore

6.2

1958

Totò, Vittorio and the Doctor

Michele Spillone detto Mike

5.1

1957

Totò, Peppino e i fuorilegge

6.5

1955

Variety carousel

6.0

1955

Totò cerca pace

Gennaro Piselli

6.2

1954

The Gold of Naples

Don Saverio Petrillo (segment "Il guappo")

7.3

1954

Il medico dei pazzi

Felice Sciosciammocca

7.1

1954

I tre ladri

Tapioca

6.4

1954

Poverty and Nobility

Don Felice Sciosciammocca

8.0

1954

The Anatomy of Love

Dionillo

6.4

1954

Where Is Freedom?

Salvatore Lojacono

6.4

1954

Of Life and Love

Rosario Chiarchiaro

6.4

1954

Funniest Show on Earth

Tottons

6.2

1953

Una di quelle

Rocco Bardelli

6.8

1953

Neapolitan Turk

Felice Sciosciammocca

7.3

1953

Man, Beast and Virtue

Prof. Paolino

6.7

1953

Toto and the Women

Antonio Scaparro

6.8

1952

Toto and the Kings of Rome

Ercole Pappalardo

7.0

1952

Totó in color

Antonio Scannagatti

7.3

1952

Cops and Robbers

Ferdinando Esposito

7.5

1951

Sette ore di guai

Totò De Pasquale

6.0

1951

Toto the Third Man

Piero / Paolo / Totò

6.1

1951

47 Talking Corpses

Il barone Antonio Peletti

7.1

1950

Toto the Sheik

Antonio Sapone

6.7

1950

Le sei mogli di Barbablù

Totò Esposito

5.1

1950

Tototarzan

Antonio Della Buffas

5.9

1950

Figaro qua... Figaro là

Figaro

5.9

1950

Side Street Story

Pasquale Miele

7.4

1950

Totò cerca moglie

Totò

6.3

1950

Totò le Mokò

Antonio Lumaconi / Totò le Moko

6.9

1949

The Emperor of Capri

Antonio De Fazio

6.6

1949

Totò cerca casa

Beniamino Lomacchio

6.8

1949

Yvonne of the Night

Nino, il fantasista

5.0

1949

The Firemen of Viggiù

Totò

5.4

1949

Toto Tours Italy

Prof. Totò Casamandrei

6.4

1948

Fifa e arena

Nicolino Capece

6.7

1948

I due orfanelli

Gasparre

5.8

1947

Slave Girl

Gobbone il cammello (narratore)

5.0

1947

The Rape of the Sabine

Aristide Tromboni

6.0

1945

Totò nella fossa dei leoni

Totò

5.8

1943

L'allegro fantasma

Nicolino & Gelsomino & Antonino

5.1

1941

San Giovanni decollato

Mastro Agostino Miciacio

6.6

1940

Animal Crackers

Barone Tolomeo dei Tolomei

5.1

1939

Hands Off Me!

Conte Toto di Torretota

6.2

1937